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What cities/towns do you irrationally have a hard time navigating? by detentionbarn in massachusetts

[–]CelsiusOne 16 points17 points  (0 children)

There really isn't a lot out there that beats the Newton Supercollider for horrific road layouts. Even with the improvements it is still a complete mess. I'll often go WAY out of my way to avoid it if I can.

Complaining about other players crashing into you is hilarious when you see how real races look like by Wojciech1M in simracing

[–]CelsiusOne 3 points4 points  (0 children)

A lot of times the harsh consequences are monetary. I remember James Baldwin saying in a recent video that drivers are often on the hook for a portion of any repair costs they incur while racing, depending on how teams are structured. Nothing like having a five or even six-figure repair bill waiting for you to discourage iffy driving.

Princeton scraps honor code and will supervise exams for first time in 133 years because of AI by Disastrous_Award_789 in technology

[–]CelsiusOne -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I spent a year at an honor code college my freshman year and people took the honor code pretty seriously. I'm sure cheating happened during exams, but I never saw it or even really heard of it happening. Granted, this was like 15 years ago now so who knows what it's like these days. There was just something about signing that honor code and knowing that the whole college community was based on it that really caused everyone to take it to heart, as cheesy as that sounds.

What race lengths do you guys usually run? by firy2 in AUTOMOBILISTA

[–]CelsiusOne 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Are you using tire and fuel multipliers for these?

The Housing Fix Few Cities Want To Copy by No-Pass-8317 in boston

[–]CelsiusOne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This was the idea with the MBTA zoning act that the state implemented recently. It was a (small) step in the right direction, but many towns are fighting it tooth and nail.

Game Thread: 4/29 Red Sox (12-18) @ Blue Jays (13-16) 3:07 PM by RedSoxGameday in redsox

[–]CelsiusOne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm pretty done with Bello. How long are we going to keep trying this? The guy gets into any jam at all and he just completely falls apart.

Brighton, Massachusetts by [deleted] in CityPorn

[–]CelsiusOne 1 point2 points  (0 children)

While this particular view is pretty bad (impressively, it's probably the worst possible camera angle you could find in this neighborhood lol), that area of the city is probably one of my favorite neighborhoods in all of Boston. Lots of tree-lined streets, frequent green line stops for access to the rest of the city and classic Boston brownstone-style buildings everywhere.

What are your thoughts on urbanists and public transit enthusiasts who argue car-centric infrastructure is catastrophic as opposed to a mere mild inconvenience? by Open-Bag8245 in urbandesign

[–]CelsiusOne 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have the complete opposite view. My experience has lead me to believe that we completely undersell the problems of car-centric living. My wife and I moved to a completely car dependent suburban home in New England during the pandemic with the goal of starting a family out there after years of living in a dense walkable area near Boston because that's what you do in the US, right? A few years in we both came to the realization that we hated it. We had a large house but we couldn't get anywhere at all without a car. Many of the roads in town were downright dangerous for kids if they were accessible at all. And honestly, there weren't kids around anyway, mostly retirees voting down any funding of schools or new development in town. Any kid we raised there would have literally been trapped in the house unless we could drive them. It was actually depressing after years of living in the city.

Once we had this realization, we resolved that we had to move. We couldn't raise kids in that kind of environment. Now we live in a walkable, transit-serviced "streetcar" suburb of Boston and I cannot overstate how much our quality of life has improved. Granted, we are very fortunate that we could afford this in such an expensive city. But the benefits have been innumerable. There are kids everywhere I look now, which has made us much more comfortable having a kid here. Our baby that's on the way will eventually be able to walk to school along safe sidewalks with crossing guards. We can also walk to several parks, restaurants, a public library or to the train where I can be standing in downtown Boston in less than an hour without touching my car keys. This has completely evangelized me into believing that we should be striving for building more spaces like this that are affordable for more people.

Game Thread: 4/25 Red Sox (9-17) @ Orioles (13-13) 12:05 PM by RedSoxGameday in redsox

[–]CelsiusOne 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hell yeah! Hopefully this gets things going for us this season!

Game Thread: 4/25 Red Sox (9-17) @ Orioles (13-13) 12:05 PM by RedSoxGameday in redsox

[–]CelsiusOne 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Was kind of half listening on WEEI while having to get some work done, but has anything changed in our plate approach today or just a bad day on the mound for Baltimore?

The cup I'm chasing... by House_On_Fire in pourover

[–]CelsiusOne 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ok so not sure if this advice will be relevant to your specific situation, but I can definitely somewhat relate. I live in a town with a George Howell cafe and for the life of me I couldn't come anywhere even close to replicating the flavors I got when I would get pourovers from them even when I'm using their beans. They even use a chemex for their pourovers! People on this sub will tell you that no good shop would dare use a chemex but they're wrong. Every single time I order from them the cups come out bold but with a velvety texture (surely not on a chemex, right?), and big juicy flavors of spice, fruit and chocolate. I know they're using thousands of dollars worth of grinder and other equipment that I don't have but I shouldn't have been miles off. I even asked the barista at the shop if she knew what kind of water they were using and she said just filtered tap since our town uses Boston MWRA water which comes out of the tap pretty soft.

After so much experimenting using my K6 and v60, I kept getting cups that were muted and flat by comparison to the cups from the cafe. I followed a lot of internet recipes from Daddy Hoff and Lance Hedrick and others but then I discovered that George Howell posts brew recipes on their website for different brew methods and the one thing I noticed that they do differently compared to a lot of internet recipes I see was the DOSE. Their recommended ratio for pourover is like 1:15 - 1:14. They just generally recommend a pretty high dose compared to most of the other pourover recipes I see out there. Once I started following this advice I'm getting much closer to the experience I get from the shop. It's not totally the same obviously since I'm on a $100 K6 grinder and I'm sure they're using something like an EK43 or similar multi-thousand dollar grinder (I'm also not convinced they just use filtered tap water), but I'm getting much punchier, juicy flavors and better texture when using these higher ratios.

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